This article continues the theme of the war captivity started in previous publications. There is carried out the comparative analysis of the support and guarding of war prisoners at the territory of our country based on the experience of the world wars. There is researched the issue of organization of the optimal regime of war prisoners support, which creates the conditions for contingent isolation, guarding and defence of objects, and excludes the opportunity to escape.

This article starts a series of works considering the issue of a person in the conditions of captivity in the period of the Great Patriotic War. The project is aimed at finding out the characteristics that reflect the political and law, social and economic, culture and communicative aspects of captivity. In spite of the big historiography of the issue, many aspects are still uncertain. There is recreated the captivity by the example of the Astrakhan region.